Jan Hein is the new Head dramaturge of Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen

According to the online portal nachtkritik.de the news was announced by Ruhrfestspiele in a press release on 14th of September. Olaf Kröck, the new artistic director, appointed Mr. Hein as Head dramaturge. The first Ruhrfestspiele organised under this new artistic direction will take place in May and June 2019.

Jan Hein studied German, Philosophy and Art History in Cologne and then worked as Assistant Director with Peter Palitzsch and Dimiter Gotscheff. From 1996 to 2012 he worked regularly with Thosten Lensing, co-directing, among others, Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya and The Cherry Orchard at Berliner Sophiensaelen.

„I am passionate about developing, together with the artistic director Olaf Kröck, a relevant, contemporary, international programme and content-focused topics, about establishing new contacts, about bringing people together and creating new forms and an opportunity for new encounters, that will be exciting, attractive, representative of the present and significant for our public and artists – obliging the tradition and the future, for our region and beyond. It should keep people on their toes”, declared the new Head dramaturge on his appointment.